Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235
topic: Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge, Shrinks, Encouragers